Look up: glaucous

1. Glaucous
   The term glaucous is also used botanically as an adjective to mean "covered with a greyish, bluish, or whitish waxy coating or bloom that is easily rubbed off" (e.g. glaucous leaves). The first recorded use of glaucous as a color name in English was in the year 1671. ==Examples== The epicuticular w...
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2. glaucous
   Having a bluish gray waxy surface.
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3. glaucous
   [adj] - having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants
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4. Glaucous
   As if coated with a blue-green bloom.
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5. Glaucous
   Covered with a fine, white, often waxy film, which rubs off.
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6. glaucous
   covered with a dull green grey waxy bloom which may be due to the difficulty of obtaining water,or excess of soluble salts,etc. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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7. Glaucous
   Glau'cous (gla'kŭs) adjective [ Latin glaucus , Greek glayko`s .] 1. Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue. Lindley. 2. (Botany) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white po...
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8. glaucous
   Blue-green in colour, with a whitish bloom. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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9. glaucous
   adjective having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; `glaucous stems`; `glaucous plums`; `glaucous grapes`
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10. Glaucous
    • (a.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf. • (a.) Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.
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11. glaucous
    glaucous 1. A description of plants or fruit that are covered in a grayish, whitish, or bluish waxy or powdery substance. 2. A reference to a dull grayish green or blue color. 3. In botany, covered with a grayish, bluish, or whitish waxy coating or bloom that is easily rubbed off; such as, glaucous leaves or fruit.
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12. glaucous
    having a bluish grey bloom.
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13. Glaucous
    covered with a thin, light-colored waxy or powdery bloom
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14. glaucous
    with a whitish bloom, blue-green in colour; e.g. the surface of the young leaves of many eucalypts.
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